Felix shivered as he stared at the boy who looked so much like Zelda that it was uncanny.
His existence in itself proved that he was in a lot of trouble. He laughed nervously, trying to figure out how to escape before the wretched demon caught him.
"Where is your mother?" Felix asked the confused boy who wanted absolutely nothing more than to be given permission to exit the place immediately.
"She left sir." The boy answered again.
Felix's nose twitched. Something was wrong. "To where?" He asked again and this time the king answered.
"She did not tell us but she did mention something about a purple girl one time, a few weeks before she was gone."
Felix did not listen to the king's explanation. His heart was pounding quite ferociously against his chest. Something soon called his immediate attention.
"The witch!" Felix screamed, agitating the king further... "Call her back now! Tell her to forget Wara!" When the man did not respond Felix glared at the man.
"If you do not call her back this instant then the very thing you hope for to save you will kill you instead."
The king's face paled. The guards in the room, despite not displaying facial expressions, were confused. They had seen all that had happened yet knew exactly nothing about what Felix had just said.
Only Felix and the King knew what he had talked about.
The only problem was...
"We have no way to reach her. We have no more magic." The king's voice was barely above a whisper as he spoke.
Witches were the only creatures who could still use magic after the Dies Lucis at the cost of their sanity which is why most witches were bound to serve royalty till they were set free in order to contain and eliminate those who lost their sanity after being consumed by their magic.
When a witch had finally served the King for their appointed time, a witch who failed a mission or a criminal Fae was asked to cast a spell to forever block the witch's access to essence, rendering them useless and setting them free.
Although what the King said was half a lie, most witches in the kingdom had either been set free or killed. The ones that were left were too young or already insane. The King could not risk it.
Felix on the other hand no idea about this and with a snap of his fingers, both him and Zola -who had been extremely quiet during the whole ordeal- vanished.
They appeared in what seemed to be a wooden house.
There were random belongings scattered everywhere which reminded Zola of an angry old man.
The little boy was afraid as he watched Felix with a wary gaze. There was something about him that seemed familiar. A bit too familiar.
Summoning up the courage and a little boldness inherited from his mother, Zola addressed the panicking Felix with a firm tone. "I know you."
It was a simple statement that caused his heart to drop. Felix turned to stare at the boy wide eyed. "You, recognise me?"
Zola shook his curly haired head, cute fluffy curls bouncing on his head. "No. I know you. And not from the scary place. I. Know. You."
There were a few things that made Felix uncomfortable. Zelda being on the top of that list, the second was being in the dark about something.
Zola was a complete mystery. And although he despised Pax, he knew she agreed that the boy was something that needed to be contained.
It was already a hassle to keep Wara from learning that her child shared her resistance to the veil's curse. Felix suspected the child was immune. Amongst other things...
He did not show signs of being affected by the cursed magic and sometimes, he said things that no one knew.
"You know me too. You know Nya. You are Felix." Felix almost staggered back in shock.
He had never told the boy his name.
Could it be that Pax was right about the boy and he was the trigger?
Zola, unaware of the dangerous thoughts forming in Felix's head, continued to reveal information about Felix that he suddenly knew.
"You are not from here." The boy took a step back and locked eyes with Felix. In those eyes, Felix saw something that made him want to drop to his knees. But he was Felix so he replied in a calm and collected voice.
"Zola dear, do not say such things."
That only seemed to worsen the situation.
"You were Frenvír." The boy whispered but it still reached Felix's ears who immediately contemplated snapping the boy's neck before he could figure out more.
Zola's eyes then turned black again as the veins and the Nik'sati appeared and suddenly, Felix was looking in the eyes of a real threat.
"Go back to where you belong." The boy's warped voice warned Felix. "Return and face your punishment in peace or you shall truly die and Justice will never save you."
Felix was horrified. He had seen this before while he was tailing the boy with magic. He knew Wara had used her connection with her son to curse the witch but this. This was not Wara.
Wara would have killed him immediately if she had already unlocked all he had locked. But even if she did, there was no way Wara would know exactly what Zola had said which meant it was either the boy talking or...
"Did you think she wouldn't notice your absence?" Zola said again, his voice mocking. "She knows, even here she knows and you will die soon if you keep meddling."
Felix had never felt such horror before. "She does not really know who you truly are but if she meets Raye..."
Then the boy's appearance immediately went back to normal. It was no secret that Zelda could see the past of anyone she ever touched. But Felix knew that she did not tell people the extent of her powers. All it took was for her to meet Pax, and she would know everything.
Wara on the other hand, it was quite easy to predict her reaction. She would immediately try to end him when she eventually unlocked everything. Felix already knew she was tracking her son down.
But Zelda... Despite the fact that she was not chaos, she was more unpredictable than chaos.
People called her insane but Felix knew she was dangerous. An unpredictable person always was.
Zola titled his head and then smiled in the mysterious ways he normally did when Wara left him alone with Frenvír (Felix).
"I am happy that you found me." He innocently said to the shocked man who was still trying to process his pending doom. "I just wish Nya was here Senior Frenvír." He sighed.
Mortified that all it took was a few sentences with him and the barely eight year old boy already figured out everything, Felix wondered how his mother would react.
"I was in this scary place but you came and now I am here. How did you do that?" Now that the boy was safe, Zola began pestering the man with questions like he always did. Only, this time, Felix was not interested in keeping up the facade.
He sidestepped the boy and entered the house, pushing open the door without even reaching for a lock or handle. Zola quickly followed him inside.
The place was more of a mess than the outside. Random belongings scattered around the living area and the furniture infested with insects. It looked like the previous owner had been chased away by an unknown force.
Zola did not mind at all and followed Felix inside, kicking away dresses that looked like his mother would have worn them.
Felix on the other hand was deep in his mind.
If Wara somehow got into the boy's head again by figuring out she could use magic without the Dies lucis, he would be in more trouble than he already was in.
He contemplated killing the boy. But he couldn't.
One of the things he never told Pax was, during the eleven years she was absent, Wara had become insane. She had gone past the line of insanity.
The only way to tie her down with a false sense of sanity was with her son.
If he killed the boy, then he unleashed Chaos.
Her being away from her son slowly broke those ties and time moved differently in the Faery's Land. He had no idea how many days or weeks it had been outside of the King's place.
Then there was the issue of Zelda.
The woman herself represented Danger. If she and Wara somehow managed to meet, Zelda would immediately get the full picture.
Zelda always managed to be involved in the most chaotic events and eventually brought death to everyone including herself.
If she and Wara met, then instead of awakening a Dîva like Felix had planned. They'd be unleashing demonic Chaos upon all worlds.
She'd wipe out races and change history violently.
Wara's insanity was predictable, Zelda? No one knew if she was insane or just pure destruction.
All Felix knew was that the meeting of two of them would unlock something worse than a Dîva.
The only person who could prevent it was Pax. She could find Wara and somehow lead her to manage without her son.
Wara needed to be serenaded, not angered. Unfortunately Pax and Wara were never a good combination.
Felix stopped in the middle of the moth eaten room, Zola directly behind him.
"Oh Shit!"
Author's note: Hello. Thank you for reading Dîva up to this chapter. I have not updated because I have misplaced my phone. I haven't had contact with the outside world for three weeks. Then I got the chance to update again last week but I still had to retrieve my SIM card so I could retrieve my passwords.
Updates will be slow until I get a new phone. But they will not take this long.
Thanks for reading ❤️